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A Christmas carol lost for 90 years and re-discovered by Barnsley Museums in 2023. Watch videos, read blogs and download the lyrics from our website https://www.barnsley-museums.com/the-barnsley-carol-christmas-eve-by-arthur-godfrey

There's lots of interviews online with Arthur Scargill that focus on his involvement in the miners strike. In this interview that pre-dates the strike John Kelly focuses on Arthur's formative years in Barnsley, his interests and influences away from the pit. This is the first time this interview has been shared online, it's from a recently digitised cassette tape from a Barnsley Archives collection. Recorded in 1983 for the Second Sight magazine created especially for the blind and partially sighted, we are currently working through the collection and will share more interviews in the near future. Download a transcript of the interview https://www.barnsley-museums.com/admin/downloads/1470

#Strike40 Kenneth O'Mara shares his memories of Elsecar and the miners' strike by Barnsley Museums

#Strike40 Gerald O'Brian shares his memories of Elsecar Main Colliery by Barnsley Museums

The interviews in this episode were recorded on 12th May 1984 at a large Women Against Pit Closures rally at the Barnsley Civic Hall. The event was much larger than expected with an estimated 10,000 women travelling from all parts of the country to the event at the civic hall and had 40 speakers. You are about to hear speeches by Ann Hunter (chairperson of rally), Lorraine Hunter, two miners' wives from Nottinghamshire and Arthur Scargill. Interviews with Chris Hall (of Barnsley Women Against Pit Closures), various miners' wives, nurses from South Wales raining community, miners' wives from Wales, and Susan Sykes, miner's wife from Grimethorpe. Special thanks to Sheffield Archives for digitising the cassette and allowing us to make it available in this podcast.

Continuing our miners' strike podcast series, this episode was recorded as part of the Elsecar Building Bridges project which you can read about on our website https://www.elsecar-heritage.com/elsecar-building-bridges-project

Recorded in 2004, Brian speaks with Ernest Kaye about his lifetime down the mines, including his striking memories

Throughout the year we are going to share highlights from Brian Elliott's oral history collection, a local historian and published author who has generously donated his sound archive to Barnsley Archives and Local Studies which we are now making available online for the first time.

Betty Cook was a founding member of the Barnsley Miners Wives Action Group which led to the formation of The Woman Against Pit Closures in Barnsley. This interview was recorded in 2009 as part of The South Yorkshire Women In Industry lottery funded project. It is being shared for the first time as part of Barnsley Museums' year-long programme of events marking 40 years since the Miners' Strike. For more details, visit our website http://www.experience-barnsley.com/strike40

A Christmas message from Barnsley Museums, featuring a Barnsley carol 'Christmas Eve' written by Arthur Godfrey and published in the Barnsley Chronicle in December 1933. With photographs of Barnsley at Christmas from Barnsley Archives. Read our blog to learn more about the carol https://barnsleymuseums.art.blog/2023/12/12/a-barnsley-christmas-eve-carol-1933/

We've got a brand new podcast, find us over on Acast for Barnsley Museums Natters https://shows.acast.com/barnsley-museums-natters the first series is all about Experience Barnsley Museums

Episode 39 - Merry Christmas! by Barnsley Museums

Episode 38 - Remotely Digital with Barnsley Archives by Barnsley Museums

Episode 37 - Brains In A Dish by Barnsley Museums

Episode 36 - National Poetry Day 2022 by Barnsley Museums

Episode 35 - In conversation with....Dorothy Hyman by Barnsley Museums

Episode 34: Pigeons, Ping Pong & Peoples Possessions by Barnsley Museums

In 2022 Graham Ibbeson has two exhibitions with Barnsley Museums. In this interview Graham talks about his work and his career.

Welcome to series 2 of the Barnsley Museums podcast! This episode is all about the Slazenger tennis ball factory. For more details about the exhibition and for more content visit our website www.experience-barnsley.com/slazenger

We're coming back with a brand new series! Episodes will be released on the last Friday of each month.

Watch the Barnsley Museums Christmas concert on Wednesday 8 December 2021 on YouTube, available on demand afterwards too https://youtu.be/ZPXp7lpD_DU

In a break away from our usual podcast format this episode is all about the music created by Barnsley Museums over the last few years. Most of the songs have additional content to watch and read: 'Of The River' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSRBjDRBXTw Barnsley Libraries Youth Music Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdMUDCpsH1I&list=PLlPUNLu4xzunFELWYq5ngEnjsWmbQTqwx Women of The Working Class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8OQK8BRvhY Newcomen Engine blog: https://barnsleymuseums.art.blog/2020/05/01/digging-the-earls-great-engine/

Episode 29 - The Wharncliffe Woodmoor Disaster, 1936 by Barnsley Museums

Dana spoke about her first dealings as a commercial artist with the Barnsley Canister company. She came up to Barnsley early in 1983 and the rest was history - her career really took off with the company. She said coming up to Barnsley ‘changed her life'. Read more about Barnsley Canister Company in this blog: https://barnsleymuseums.art.blog/2020/06/10/tins-tins-tins/

Selina Wray is an Alzheimer's Research UK Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. Selina received her degree in Biochemistry and Biological Chemistry from the University of Nottingham in 2004, before undertaking PhD training in Dr Diane Hanger's laboratory at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London. Selina was awarded her PhD in 2008 and subsequently joined the laboratory of Professor John Hardy at UCL Institute of Neurology as an Alzheimer's Research UK Junior Research Fellow. This interview was recorded in 2017 as part of the Barnsley Archives Joy of Sound & Vision project funded by the national lottery heritage fund to make Barnsley's film and sound archive accessible for the first time

After a short break the Barnsley Museums podcast is back! At the end of each month we will have more highlights from the Barnsley Archives sound archive. The next few episodes are extracts of interviews Brian Elliott a local historian and author. We will making more of his interviews available via www.soundcloud.com/BarnsleyMuseums

Hello! Welcome to our LGBT History Month special. In this podcast you will hear from: Steven Skelley, Barnsley Museums, talking about how people can contribute LGBT+ memories and items to Experience Barnsley. Ken Brookes, Maurice Dobson Museum & Heritage Centre, talking about Maurice Dobson and his partner Fred Halliday. Stephen Miller, Barnsley Libraries, author ‘Uncovered’ Barnsley project, talking about discovering untold stories of Barnsley’s LGBT+ past. Jenny Rudd, NT Wentworth Castle Gardens, talking about her research & forthcoming talk on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, pioneer of smallpox vaccine. Kate Charlesworth - A Barnsley Born Author, cartoonist and Illustrator now living in Scotland, reflecting on her career and recent book: Sensible Footwear: A Girl's Guide

In this episode we revisit the guest from episode one as Ian McMillan chats about some of his memories of Darfield

In this Christmas episode of the podcast we share highlights from our festive virtual coffee morning and reminisce about our favourite Christmas memories

This podcast is all about the Barnsley British Co-operative Society which was once at the heart of the community Read more about the co-op here: https://barnsleymuseums.art.blog/2020/07/31/barnsley-british-co-operative-society/

Almost everything you see at Experience Barnsley has been donated by the public. In the seven years since the museum opened many more people have come forward with objects and stories, the pandemic might have slowed down our plans but we are looking forward to welcoming visitors back from 7 November

Episode 20: Virtual Pear Day by Barnsley Museums

Like the rest of the world we have been using Zoom to stay in touch with one another during lockdown. This podcast is a compilation of these virtual coffee mornings. If you don't already please follow Barnsley Heritage Connects on social media.

Joy Winkler grew up in Pogmoor in the 1960s although she has since left Barnsley Joy still has fond memories of Barnsley which she has captured beautifully in these poems. She now lives in Macclesfield and became Cheshire's Poet Laureate in 2005 This interview was recorded as part of the Barnsley Archives Joy of Sound & Vision National Lottery Heritage Fund project to make the towns film and sound collections available. You can also learn more about Hear My Voice here: http://www.barnsley-museums.com/hear-my-voice-

As part of our #BarnsleyCares project Nicole from QDos Creates demonstrates a body scan exercise: Simply lie down, close your eyes and enter into a state of relaxation as you listen to this video guiding you through a gradual sequence of relaxing the muscles in your entire body from head to toe. The body scan is a useful relaxation technique is a mindful and meditative practice that brings awareness to the body as a whole and helpful for relaxing both the body and mind.

As this weekend would have been Barnsley Live we have delved into our archives to re-visit this interview we did with Seventh Son ahead of the opening of Experience Barnsley in June 2013 - almost everything on display in the museum has been donated by the people of Barnsley including donations by local rockers Seventh Son.

Recorded in 2017 as part of our National Poetry Day celebrations enjoy poerty and music from Ian McMillan, Jacqui Wicks, Ralf Dartford and Ray Hearne which was recorded on buses around Barnsley and Wakefield http://www.barnsley-museums.com/join-us-digitally-hear-my-voice-2020

In 2018 there was an exhibition at Experience Barnsley all about The Barnsley Canister Company. As part of this our Community Heritage Curator, Steven Skelley spoke to lots of former employees. One the interviewees was Trevor Wilkes http://www.barnsley-museums.com/join-us-digitally

Sit back and listen to the beautiful soundscape created for the Elsecar Newcomen Engine by sound artist and musician Andy Seward, as part of the Elsecar Newcomen Dig in July 2019. Read more here: https://bit.ly/DiggingTheEarlsGreatEngine

Episode 13 In conversation with: Dickie Bird by Barnsley Museums

Episode 11: In conversation with Mel Dyke MBE by Barnsley Museums

Donated to Barnsley Archives by the Ordnance Survey, they give a fascinating snapshot of everyday life in and around Hoyland 65 years ago this year. The collection includes rare photographs of Rockingham Colliery and Elsecar Main Colliery, as well as photographs of Air Raid shelters, pre-fab housing, shops and pubs around Hoyland, Hoyland Common, Elsecar and Hemingfield. To celebrate the 65 year anniversary of the images being taken, staff from Barnsley Museums have recreated a selection of the images with help from local residents. See this mini exhibition here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/barnsleymuseums/albums/72157711990720238

International Women's Day - We revisit the hugely popular exhibition Coal Not Dole and hear from the Barnsley Women Against Pit Closures

Take a fascinating tour of Maurice Dobson Museum with Ken one of the fantastic volunteers at the Maurice Dobson Museum in Darfield & learn more about the enigmatic shopkeeper, Maurice. This podcast also celebrates the National Lottery Heritage funded project Barnsley Heritage connects. Find us and Maurice Dobson Museum on social media Twitter: @BarnsleyHC1 @DarfieldMuseum

Take a tour of Brookestock with its creator Terry Brookes. This also makes for essential listening as you're walking around the exhibition which you can see at The Cooper Gallery until 7 March 2020 www.cooper-gallery.com/brookestock

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the National Lottery we had our own draw to select which clips would be used in this podcast #ThanksToYou and the National Lottery Heritage fund our sound archive was digitised and made available for the first time as part of the Joy of Sound & Vision project in 2017. www.experience-barnsley.com

Episode 5: Barnsley For Bargains - Memories of Barnsley Market by Barnsley Museums

Here are just just a few of the highlights from the Dearne Valley Landscape Partnership's 'End of The Show Show' celebration event held back in June 2019 https://discoverdearne.org.uk/

As part of the Festival of British Archaeology in July 2019 Archaeologists from ArcHeritage worked with local schools and community volunteers to uncover the engine's lost boiler house. This podcast was recorded during the dig, did we find the boiler house....? Listen to this podcast to find out! www.elsecar-heritage.com

Welcome to episode 2 of our podcast! In this episode Steven Skelley shares snippets of some of the interviews he's recorded as part of our Barnsley Canister Company exhibition. If you are listening to this before 28 September 2019 makes sure you visit Experience Barnsley to find out more! http://www.experience-barnsley.com/tins-tins-tins-lifting-the-lid-on-the-barnsley-canister-company-

Hello! Welcome to the first episode in a new series from Barnsley Museums. Spend half an hour in the company of Ian McMillan, writer, broadcaster and all round Barnsley ambassador. For any questions or feedback please email experiencebarnsley@barnsley.gov.uk or tweet us - @BarnsleyMuseums #BarnsleyPodcast